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Sagor Ahamed
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🌍 Cloudflare Global Network Outage — What Happened & Why It Matters

A major disruption hit the internet today as Cloudflare’s Global Network experienced issues, temporarily affecting millions of websites, APIs and CDN-backed services worldwide.

At 13:09 UTC, Cloudflare officially posted:

“The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”

Because Cloudflare powers:

20%+ of the entire internet

Major CDN layers

DNS management

Reverse proxy services

API routing

— even a short outage creates ripple effects across the digital ecosystem.

âś” What users experienced:

Slow website loading

DNS failure

SSL handshake errors

API timeouts

Hosting disruptions

âś” Why this is important

This outage highlights a deeper truth:

The internet is not as decentralized as people think.
One company’s technical issue can affect the entire world.

As a Web Developer, I monitored the incident closely, and the impact reminded us of the need for:

Redundant DNS providers

Failover caching

Multi-CDN setups

Website uptime monitoring

Cloudflare is rolling out the fix, and full stability is expected soon.

Stay updated. Stay prepared.
— Sagor Ahamed (CryptoWebBuild)
đź”— https://cryptowebbuild.com/

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